Jim Carroll

(not shouting - still haven't learned italics on Mudcat - despite Bryan's advice, if you're in on this).

<i>You do italics like this.</i>

Just keeping an interested watching brief. I never met Ewan MacColl nor heard him perform but I know many who did and they seem to be divided between those who loved him and those who loathed him. He seems to have generated deep loyalty in some while severely getting up the nose of others. Surely any analysis of his influence has to look at all aspects of the man.

I don't fall into either of those camps (perhaps because I'm a musician not a singer). What does concern me is that it seems to be considered fair play by the pro-Ewan lobby to disparage those with whom he fell out in his lifetime, some of whom I do know.